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Baylor University mascot bears benefit from SHARK campaign 18 years later

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Longterm payoff bears recognition             WACO, Texas––A Showing Animals Respect & Kindness campaign targeting Baylor University back in 2002-2003 continued to pay off eighteen years later when the Baylor mascot bear enclosure,  built in 2005 in response to the SHARK campaign,  in May 2021 won Association of Zoos & Aquariums accreditation,  “a first for a […]

How to heal pets, heal the humane community, & heal the veterinary profession

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Diagnosis by Dr. Jeff Young, Rocky Mountain Vet, & prescription by Bob Christiansen could provide a cure-all Drawing from a million to 1.7 million viewers per episode of his reality TV show Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet,  Jeff Young might be considered the most influential veterinarian in the world. Certainly Young must be the most […]

Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming

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Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21,  1947––October 13,  2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]

Jack Hanna shenanigans get Columbus Zoo the boot from the AZA––again

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Previous “one year” suspension lasted just seven months––& many other AZA zoos then did what Jack Hanna had done             COLUMBUS, Ohio––Forty-plus years of Jack Hanna shenanigans finally caught up to the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium on October 1,  2021. The Association of Zoos & Aquariums [AZA] for the second time yanked the Columbus Zoo’s […]

Suspected drugged animals again displayed on New York City streets

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Joseph Ramos-Noal/Noah and his immobile animals reappear on the Upper West Side            NEW YORK,  N.Y. –– He’s back! Just when you thought it was safe again to walk on the Upper West Side of New York City without encountering Joseph Ramos and his zombie-like animal collection,  Ramos “seems to have reemerged with a whole […]

Six pit bull-related deaths linked to “The Wickedest City in America”

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Phenix City goes to the dogs (& transfers dogs to laboratories)             PHENIX CITY, Alabama––Frank Jerome “Red” Cobb,  70,  killed by a pit bull on September 21,  2021,  was at least the sixth pit bull-related fatality linked to Phenix City,  Alabama,  population 36,000,  since 1988. Only three of the deaths,  including Cobb’s.  actually occurred within […]

“Victories” that are not, & other views of big animal groups from “The Eejit”

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“Promises, promises,”  to the skirl of bagpipes Soon-to-retire longtime Animal Concern campaign director John Robins,  being a Scot who may never have seen a baseball game,  is not known to have ever used a metaphor borrowed from baseball. (See “Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland.) Robins is known,  […]

“Eejit” John Robins shuffles off after 41 years fighting for animals in Scotland

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Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins,  64,  probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history,  despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,”  has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth,  but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]

The Supremacist Syndrome, by Peter Marsh

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How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, & the Maltreatment of Animals Lantern Publishing & Media,  128 Second Place,  Brooklyn,  NY 11231;  www.lanternpm.org. Available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Many ANIMALS 24-7 readers will remember Supremacist Syndrome author and New Hampshire attorney Peter Marsh as an occasional presenter […]